horror and awe at reading the total lack of knowledge and misunderstanding
about the real, scientific, way to use complex remedies.
Some of us DO know homeopathy inside out at all levels......
I am not talking about the OTC, commercially prepared bottles, "this for
that": this is allopathy indeed, using dynamised substances, not homeopathy.
I am not talking about the complex remedies used in Homotoxicology,
Anthroposophical Medicine, Homeobotanical medicine, or the Reckeweg system:
those are homotoxicological, anthroposophical, homeobotanical and Reckeweg
remedies prescribed according to their respective principles of practice,
and they do not call themselves Homeopaths.
The complexist approach is different: first it is a clinical,
pathology-oriented approach, aimed at treating a state of disease in a
system or organ of a patient, using the symptoms, signs and modalities
developed by that system/organ and not relating to "totality" of the patient
Example: a patient with liver insufficiency or hepatitis; most of the
general symptoms and signs that I would include in a
classical/Hahnemaniann/Kentian approach are the result of the metabolic
imbalance due to the liver situation. Any "constitution", any "miasm" will
present with almost the same clinical symptoms and the few individual
variations specific to a patient are not enough to prescribe upon, if at all
perceptible. Therefore it is indicated to treat the liver status first,
remove the pathological symptoms and signs, THEN get to the essential core
of the problem that has led to liver insufficiency or hepatitis.
Within that plan it is possible to "take the case" of an organ: which part
of the liver is enlarged leads to different remedies, the local symptoms,
aggravations, amelioration and modalities will provide a list of different
remedies. So far nothing much different.....but we are here dealing with a
very physical system where physiology and biochemistry are perturbed; the
different remedies have different modes of actions (and some of us know them
when studied from a herbalist point of view, just compare the MM for
Taraxacum, Silybum and Cynara in herbal and homeopathic textbooks....) and
despite what many have written, they DO work in synergy.
In situations like that, what is important is not to know which remedy was
effective, but that the TREATMENT was effective, the patient is back to his
normal previous status, now we can go on and treat deeply.
Here is a treatment I prescribed yesterday to a colleague in his seventies
with sudden (a few months ago) appearance of a mitral valve prolapse with
slowly progressing heart failure and shortness of breath.
Those are the rubrics I used (Mac Rep and RefWorks):
Heart & circulation; HEART and region of; valves, valvular complaints;
mitral (27)
Respiration; GASPING; heart complaints, in (1)
Generalities; HEART complaints, in (311)
Respiration; DIFFICULT; heart complaints, in (67)
Respiration; DIFFICULT; heart complaints, in; valvular (2)
Mitral valve prolapse (4) :
Mitral valve (47) : Respiration; DIFFICULT; exertion agg. (123)
Heart & circulation; EXERCISE, after; slight (50)
The major remedies that appeared useful here are Lauroceraseus, Strophantus
and Apocynum Cannabinum. I eliminated the animal remedies (snakes...) as
being too potent for him right now and the others as not being sufficiently
heart specific, settled on those 3 using HERBAL indications, which are
exactly the same in homeopathic materia medicas, only more developed....so
yes, you could say this is a herbal prescription using potentised herbs, if
you want.
As a first stage he will take them separately, for a simple reason: IMO he
will be able to stop the Apocynum quickly, if that prescription works, then
we can adapt the doses of the others (that is the PLURALISTIC approach),
then both remaining remedies will be put together to form a combo/complex
specific to his cardiac condition and prepared according to repertorisation
and materia medica.
That is how you create a combo/complex remedy, that is how you use multiple
remedies at the same time.
What is not acceptable for practitioners is to throw into the same bottle
remedies that vaguely related to a few symptoms and hope for the best.
Have a Happy New Year and a Merry Hanukkah.
Joe.
Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind"
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